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53—No. 98
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934
GOOD AFTERNOON
The New Deal Is ti old •• his
tory, itjri Col. Theodore Roose
velt. Did history begin with the
inauguration of President Roose
velt?
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Methodist Women Open Missionary Meeting
P CHURCH
MED FOR
It DELEGATES
Lutive Group Estab
(jies New Scholarship;
Continues Two Others
EXTEND
THURSDAY
j ; '' the conference
•' 'Ti fajre H).
h. - Women's Mis
ir >. the Western
t: r :.:i o riference of the
-• i !lurch were*
P,; a: - •* ' m. this after
• v. First Methodist
«•
h- •. convention was
v: " a 'a i1 -ship service in
V W. W. Hajrood,
as to be follow
•V -'Ot.nu's at 3 o'clock.
V\ I;. West, form
v church here, and
. w.i c cider of the Ashe
>was to conduct a
-. >• -vice at 1:30 this
r - » rvice to be fol
•v j • • .'rial service at 5
SSIONS TO
through
* a preliminary to the open
"sesson this afternoon the ex
hve committee met this morn
u 11 o'clock at the church
i Mr?. Charles C. Weaver of
trie, presiding.
bit riree members of the ex
it* committee were absent at
3t*m this morning. two of
i oetnc ill and a third being
a*av on account of a death
er immediate family.
[t the executive meeting, com
te? appointments among the
libers were made for the
id meetings to be held this
rsooR. After these group
(tnz> rcc'immendations will
nade to the conference as a
lie tomorrow and Thursday,
lo.rmittees were named as fol
y. Literature atui publicity,
Sren's work, education and
notion, missions and Bible
iv. finance. Christian social
tons, and spiritual life,
'a? executive committee this
fcrs: voted to establish a
liarihip at Yashti school, at
nasville, (la., this scholarship
it vamed at $200. The com
ree also voted to continue a
tiarshin at Sue Bennett col
t in Kentucky, and also a
(9 scholarship at Payne col
i This scholarship will be
H by two students.
Exact registration figures were
I available at noon today, but
Irjp number of visiting ladies
I registered. Local ladies in
to of arrangements had pre
M for 350 delegates and this
liber was expected by 2:30
\ attemoon. This many ad
*e registrations for the entire
r'iav conference had been
r-H in addition, more than
i additional visitors were ex
W to attend the se.^sions of
! conference tomorrow for the
I only.
N'jrfit at H o'clock a worship
*:!l he conducted at the
nV the Rev. Claude H.
rr^ P^tor. Special music will
-atiire this program, and
' message will be de
f"! by Mrs. W. R. Harris of
hn!»'
i, "" W«U begin at 9 a. m.
L e®*vlav and the morning
L°r ^<>ar the reports of
^ice-president. Mrs. W.
•lagiofj; superintendent of
Mrs. G. M. Voard: sup
ij-nt of literature and pub
•' ■> A. L Thompson; su
i - ntinued on page three)
Sh-h-h-h!
She wouldn't say "yes" and she
wouldn't say "no," would Swe
den's lovely Princess Ingrid, to
those rumors of royal romance.
But even as she left her Paris
hotel the other day, as shown
here, reports persisted *that she
actually is engaged to Prince
Frederik of Denmark.
BAPTISTS SET
SUNDAY SING
Fruitland I. to Stage Pro
gram Also at First
Church Here
All Baptist pastors, Sunday
school superintendents, teachers,
deacons and all church worke^
are expected in large numbers to
hear the Baptists sing gospel
songs at the First Baptist church
at Hendersonville next Sunday
afternoon. Jas. L. Brown said to
(lay.
Miss Mary Brooks, the organ
ist. will becrin the program at 2
o'clock, and the sonjjs will be
sunjr by about 250 to 300 Sun
day school voices, becrinning at
2:15 lead by Donno Wilkie and
Roy C. Bennett, with Mrs. John
A. Sinclair at the piano.
Mud Creek. Jones Gap, Beu
lah, Ktowah. Mills River. Shaws
Creek. Kruitland. Tuxedo, East
Flat Rock, Balfour, Valley Hill,
Refuge and Horse Shoe and oth
ers will take part in Ihe sinjrinK1.
Then there will be a special pro
pram rendered by Kruitland
(Continued on nacre three)
Intense Rests In Cannon Case;
I bishop Looking Forward 1 o The
I Quadrennial Church Conference
■ *\>HlNr,TO\. Apr. 24. (UP) ,
■ I today in the
' P. shop Cannon and to
I Ada L. Bui
1 "T more thun two weeks
V to prove
r ; ' guilty of conspiracy
■ rapt practices
I final witness, at
■ •" explain hnw the ledger
f r" 19a anti-Smith campaign)
I r\>,! while the cash book j
Ht <ai<l both were sent!
I ' lUrten at the Meth
t.. ar,J Temperance and
I ut that "only the ledger
I V d av" ^">'n preserved."
■a*. °'JrTou?>c •vimitted to a
ElwZj r r*lMts to congress
■V? vith "mistakes.'
I "Usoa demanded to
know why Miss HurrouK«u» ■
listed the loans in two different
ways she replied:
"I admit that I made errors in
not putting the nam*1 on all the
loans, but I do not know why I
did not."
Cannon, who is bishop of Mex
ico, Cuba, Africa and Brazil,
hopes that the trial will be ended
before Tuesday, when the Meth
odist church opens its quadren
nial conference at Jackson, Miss.
DR. WRIGHT STRICKEN
GREENVILLE. April 24. —
(UP).—Dr. R. H. Wright, presi
dent of Eastern Carolina Teach
er s college, today remained in a
critical condition after a stroke
yesterday. He is holding his own,
I however, his physicians said.
DELAY SECOND
VOTE ON OPEN
SUNDAY HERE
Opposition Organizing and
Will Be Given Hearing
Wednesday
HOPING TOAVOID
HEATED DISCUSSION
Opposition to an ordinance au
1 thorizing Sunday amusements and
j baseball in Hendersonville was
| rapidly taKintr definite form to
i day, although it appeared that
| studied efforts were being made
to avoid heated discussions that
might prove seriously deterimen
tal to business, civic and religi
ous interests of tfie city.
Announcement was made by
Mayor A. V. Edwards that the
I board of city commissioners, which
I passed the ordinance on first
j reading late Saturday, had grant
! ed an audience to the ministers
j of the city for 5 p. m. Wednes
day after request ha'd been made
j by the Rev. Claude H. Moser,
president, and the Rev. Wike Lip
pard. secretary of the ministerial
association. While it had been
planned to bring up the ordi
nance for second reading this
afternoon, further action on the
bill will be postponed until after
the ministers have been heard,
Mayor Edwards said. The con
ference will not be open to any
one except the city officials and
ministers.
Meanwhile Mayor Edwards had
in his possession a copy of reso
lutions adopted Sunday by the
congregation of the First Baptist
church and it was assumed that
this also will be given considera
tion by council when it meets to
morrow.
C. OF 0. KEEPING
"HANDS OFF"
At a meeting of Chamber of
Commerce directors last night,
the Sundav amusement ordinance
was mentioned in connection
with the community's entertain
ment program for the summer
hut discussion of the ordinance
was not invited. Milo W. Strong,
1 president, while favoring1 the or
dinance, had said previously tha'"
j in view of conflicting opinions he
; believed the Chamber of Com
merce should have nothing to do
j with opposing the ordinance or
I urging its passage1.
| Referring to the proposed con
i ference of ministers and commis
' sioners tomorrow, the Rev. Mr.
Moser said today that he believed
this was the best method of pre
senting opposition to the move-1
ment to legalize Sunday amuse
ments, particularly an a first
step.
"The commissioners," he said,
"are members of our churches
and we believe they will be re
ceptive to the arguments which
we will present against further
commercializing the Sabbath."
While the ministers had noth
ing further to sav today, it was
learned from other sources that
if final enactment of the ordi
nance is urged, the opposition
will exert additional pressure
(Continued on page four.)
BOXING FEST
IS IN MAKING
Sponsors Make Every Ef
fort to Have Good Card
for May 18
Entrants in the American Le
gion boxing carnival to be held
at the high school gym on May
18th are now being received and
every effort is being made to
line up a good card for tt is
event.
The present plan calls for 10
bouts to be staged during the
evening. John L. Loy, chairman
of the committee, has already ar
ranged several of these bouts and
others are being made up as the
names come in.
Boxers at the local high school
have signified that they will en
ter the event and Don Parker
and Hudie Quarels have been ap
pointed by the boys to take
charge of the high school en
trants.
Any amateur boxers in the
county who wishes to enter the
competition are asked to get in
ouch with George R. Fain at The
Times-News office. The carnival
committee is composed of J. L.
Loy, chairman, L. K. Singley and
George Fain.
President Entertains His Classmates
A reunion certain to be memorable in the lives of the members of
Harvard's class of '04 is the one pictured here. From the south por
tico of the White House, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greet the
Chief Executive's classmates and families.
Edneyville, Dana I
Market Parley
To Be Resumed
Farmers of the Edneyville sec
tion will meet at the Edneyville
sehool house on Wednesday night
at 7:30 o'clock in a continuation
of the consideration of a vegetu
ble marketing proposition.
Farmers of the Dana scction
will meet at the Dana school house
on Thursday night at 7:.'J0 o'clock
for a discussion of the same ob
ject.
It is hoped that J. C. Bennett,
farm agent of the Seaboard rail
way, will attend both meetings.
IU. S. FLEET PASSES
, THROUGH THE CANAL
ABOARD U. S. CALIFORNIA
IN FANAMA CANAL, April 24.
(By Radio to United Fress).—The
United States fleet ol 100 vessels
steamed through Fanama Canal
under bristling guns of the army
and under simulated wartime con
ditions yesterday after a sudden
change in plans announced by Ad
miral David Foote Sellers.
Commercial shipping was bar
red from the canal as the fleet
went through.
The "quick" transit order
brought wails of protest from
small merchants who had stocked
heavily for the expected two
weeks shore leave of the 50,000
sailors at Fanama City. Society
leaders who had incited officers
to a grand ball last night likewise,
I were disappointed.
GIRL KILLER IS
FACING DEATH
Man Who Attacked and
Murdered Child Has
Short Trial
SHREVEPORT, La., April 24.
(UP).—Sentence of death was
imposed on D. B. Napier, 38 pa
per butterfly salesman, yesterday
after a three-hour trial in district
court where he stood accused of
the assault and muder of 15-year
old Mae Griffin.
Only 55 minutes was required
to select a jury at yesterday's
trial. The prosecution read Na
pier's signed confession, in which
he said that he lured the girl
from her home on the pretext of
giving her a job, and assaulted
her and stabbed her to death
with a pocket knife.
The date of execution will be
set later.
CANNON MAY~BECOME
SUPERANNUATED
JACKSON, Miss., April 24.—
(UP)—It was reported last night
that Iiishop James R. Cannon,
Jr., may be retired as superan
nauted during the quardrennial
conference of the Methodist Epis
copal church, south, which opens
here this wt>ek. Responsible of
ficials of the church declined to
comment on the matter, however.
CHILD HEALTH DAY
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April
24. (UP)—Governor Dave Sholtz
yesterday issued a proclamation
designating May as child health
day.
House Committee Votes Okeh Of
Two Anti-Crime Laws, Aimed At
Outlaws Of Dillinger's Class
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24. (UP)
The House judiciary committee
today voted to report favorably
two hills in the government's 12
point anti-crime program aimed
at such outlaws as Dillinger.
Chairman Hatton W. Summers
said the committee will meet to
morrow to discuss the bills.
NELSON IS NAMED AS
U. S. AGENT'S SLAYER
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24. (UP)
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the
division of investigation of the de
partment of justice today named,
George Nelson as the Dillinger
gangster who yesterday shot and
killed Justice Agent "W. Carter
Baum of northern Wisconsin.
DILLINGER AND HIS
GANG STILL AT LARGE
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 24.—
(UP).—John Dillinger and four
of his gang of arch criminals who
escaped from a northern Wiscon
sin trap at the cost of two dead
and four wounded, apparently had j
covered up their trail last night
by dividing into two groups. )
Two gangsters, one of them
believed to be Dillinger, had not
been reported since the five shot
their way to freedom near Little
Mohemia resort in the Wisconsin
Lake region. The last trace of
the other three came with the
finding of a blood-smeared stolen
coupe. The car had been aban-i
•doned after one of the occupants
had been wounded by a small
town policeman.
Meanwhile automobile head
lights flashed along a. dozen high
ways and crossroads last night as
federal agents, Twin City police
men, deputy sheriff", and Minne
sota highway patrolmen searched
a 15 mile area between the Wis
consin boundary and the twin
cities.
BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT
PROGRAM EVER STAGED HERE
PLANNED BY COMMERCE BODY
C. of C. Reluctantly Extends HolIowelPs Services With
Relief Office, and Votes for Main Street
Quarters for Tourist Season
Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce, meeting Monday eve
ning1, voted to open headquarters
for the organization at an early
date on Main street, instructed
the entertainment committee to
proceed with plans for the most
comprehensive program of sum
mer entertainment ever under
taken here, decided to allow Sec
retary Hollowell to continue as
government relief director in
Henderson county, with President
Strong in charge of the organiza
tion activities during the season,
and acted on other matters of
great importance to the progress
of the community and section.
Headquarters of the organiza
tion will remain in the city build
ing, but special tourist season of
fices will be opened, as soon as
necessary arrangements can ba
made, in the building on the east
side of Main street, between Fifth
and Sixth avenues, which was oo
cupicd several ye^rs ago by the
offices of the Lake Lure company.
This building will be fitted up for
tourist season headquarters, with
a number of features which will
make it most interesting and at
tractive.
The directors voted to extend
an invitation to the Carolina Mo
tor club to open an office in Hen
dersonville and will offer this or
craniiation space in the Main
street building for its ofTice.
The largest program of summer
entertainment ever undertaken
here was unanimously voted by
the directors. This will be in j
charge of the Chamber of Com
merce entertainment committee,
O. Y. Brownlee, chairman, and
will be announced in detail as
soon as the committee has per
fected its plans.
The entertainment program of
the Chamber of Commerce is not
connected in any way with th9
movement to introduce commer
cialized entertainment and sports
here on Sundays.
President Strong volunteered
his services to direct the office of
the organization .through tho
spring and summer, to permit
Secretary Hollowell to continue as
relief director in the county. With
great reluctance the directors ac
cepted the arrangement, believing
it will serve the best interests of
the people of the entire county.
In this connection Mr. Strong
reported on his winter trip to
Florida and other states, during
which he acted as advertising
agent for Hendersonville and this
territory. Mr. Strong visited 66
towns and cities in which he con
tacted the commercial organiza
tions, and 28 other towns which
have no chambers of commerce.
In all of these towns and cities
Mr. Strong talked with leading
citizens and distributed advertis
ing matter. His forecast of sum
mer business is most favorable.
The places visited by Mr. Strong
arc located in Florida, Georgia,
(Continued on page three)
1NSULLHEADS i
FOR U. S. PORT
Looks Longingly for Last
Sight of Union Jack
Over Gibraltar
ABOARD S. S. EXILONA,
April 24.—(UP).—Samuel In
sull bade farewell to Europe, fu
tile asylum from American just-,
icc, last night and headed out
over the Atlanic on the last leg
of his voyage home.
The former Chicago utilities
operator looked mournfully thru
a porthole for a last glimpse of
the Union Jack, flying over Gi
braltar as the freighter carrying
him back for trial slipped thru.
the strait and into the open sea.
He later donned a heavy over
coat and came on deck for a
glimpse of the last land he will
see until the Exilona approaches
the coast of North America and
puts in at Boston.
A chill .vind whipped the sea
into choppy waves as the Exilona
nosed westward. Insull was si
lent as the Union Jack, under
which he was born a British sub
ject 74 years ago, fluttered in
the wind, waving farewell as
dusk settled over the sea and
land slipped out of sight to the
stern.
His Recall Sought
A Request that the British gov
ernment be asked to recall Gerald
Campbell (above), British consul
general at New York, has been
made by Representative Fred A.
Britten of Illinois, vho told the
House that Campbell, in a public
speech on February 10, had op
posed the then-pending Vinson
navy bill.
RIDG1ANS SET
SUMMER TERM
Semi-Camp Term at School
for Boys Runs From
June 22 to Aug. 4
The forthcoming summer term
of the Blue Ridge School for Boys
will begin on June 22 and end
August 4. It has been planned
especially to meet the demands on
the part of parents for a place
where their sons may spend a part
of the long summer vacation un
der wholesome and enjoyable en
vironments, having the opportun
ity to carry on a desired amount
of scholastic work and at the same
time add to their store of health
and vigor.
The summer term is semi-camp
in nature, laying equal stress as
the camps upon physical recrea
tion and wholesome entertainment
but providing also facilities for
efficient and accredited school
work. The headmaster of the
school was a pioneer in camp
work in the South, having estab
lished what is now the oldest
camp for boys in Western North
Carolina. His wide experiences in
both camp and school work and
cjose study of boy nature have
enabled him to plan daily pro
grams of a recreational and edu
cational nature that will prove
(Continued on page four)
GUY TUGffELL
IS SLATED AS
WALLACE AIDE
Administration Abandons
Projected Milk Control
Program
BLOC PLEDGES SILVER
NATIONALIZATION
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24. (UP)
Representative Robert Dough ton,
Democrat, North Carolina, chair
man of the House ways and mean*
committee, discussed the project
ed tobacco tax legislation with
the president today. Doutrhton
indicated he had urcrcd a lower
tax on tobacco. The president
feels, it is understood, that these
taxes should not be reduced.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24. (UP)
The agricultural adjustment ad
ministration yesterday abandoned
efforts to restrict production of
milk—most important American
farm product.
Dairymen themselves who re
ceive $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,
000,000 annually or about one
fourth of the total farm income
from the sale of their product,
rejected the AAA plan to pji.v
them upwards of $165,000,000
for production sacrifices. Farm
administrators kept their promise
not to impose the control plan on
the industry against its will.
Administrator Chester C. Davis
expressed fear that lack of pro
duction control would reduce the
effectiveness of marketing agree
ments and federal licenses now
operating in about 21 communi
ties. Otherwise, however, he ex
pressed no disappointment, stat
ing that he did not jegard the ac
tion as a setback to the AAA pro
gram as a whole and that ha
would have been unwilling to ad
minister a plan hampered by an
unwilling industry.
TUGWELL SLATED FOR
A NEW POSITION
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24. (UP)
President Roosevelt sent to the
senate the nomination of Rexford
Guy Tugwell to be undersecretary
of agriculture. This would fill a
new position which has been cre
ated by the president.
SENATE BLOC PLEDGED
TO SILVER ACTION
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24. (UP)
A senate bloc pledged itself yes
terday to a campaign for nation
alization of silver despite Presi
dent Roosevelt's refusal to accept
such legislation.
In the house the administration
won a temporary victory in its
battle against inflationists when
the McLeod bill, calling for the
government to pay $3,000,000,000
to depositors in closed banks wan
sidetracked. The vote came on a
resolution to bring up the McLeod
bill for immediate vote. It was
tabled, 227 to 122.
Secretary of Treasury Morgen
thau said a list of persons engaged
in speculative silver dealings—re
quested in a senate resolution sev
eral weeks ago—would be submit
ted today.
WOMAN SUES DAUGHTER
BRUNSWICK, Ga.. April 2A.
(UP).—Mrs. W. C. Towles is su
ing her daughter, Miss Alice
Towles, for $5000 damages for
injuries suffered when the auto
mobile driven by her daughter
struck a bridge.
Westerfield Says Function of
Money More Socialized; Change
Not Seen By Ex-Gov. LaFollette
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April
24.— (UP).—The conception of
the functions of money has be
come more socialized in recent
years, in contrast to the old idea
that the "sole function of banking
is to facilitate the production and
marketing1 of goods," Prof. Ray
B. Westerfield declared today be
fore the Tennessee Valley Insti
tute.
Westerfield, Yale economist and
chairman of the economists' na
tional committee on monetary
policy led a round-table discussion
of the socialization of banking to
day.
"The relation of the govern
ment to money, credit and bank
ing is no longer simply regula
tory. It is now regarded as prop
er and expedient for the govern
ment to make positive use of
these instruments to effect social
ends," he said.
SAYS POCKETBOOKS
REMAIN UNCHANGED
CHATTANOOGA, April 24.
(UP).—Former Governor Philip
LaFollette/ Wisconsin, expressed
the opinion here today that the
pocketbooks of the American peo
ple have not "undergone any ma
terial change",in the past year.
He predicted that "things are go
ing to happen" unless political
and economic leaders correctly
diagnose the nation's troubles and
act upon them quickly.
LaFollette, who will address the
TVA Institute here tonight said
"All agencies of information are
highly misleading. There has
never been so much propaganda
as during the present time."